Dowbrigade

(This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion)
You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when
Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician
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Howard Dean has the floor now. Up on the big stage, he is much less open and authentic than when he spoke with the Bloggers yesterday morning. Big surprize. Still, you can feel the warmth of his reception in the hall. Most of his supporters had never been involved in politics before, and [...]

Tonight we took the shuttle bus from Coply Plaza to the Fleet Center.
  It was eerie being the only vehicle on the recently completed Big
Dig I-95 extension, shooting us under the center of the city directly
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If knowing how to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money
is a prerequisite for governing this great country in this day and
age, the Democratic Party is demonstrating that they are highly qualified
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It is somewhat overwhelming being a part of the Blogging Contingent
which is expected to save Convention coverage from the morass of insignificance
and self-serving shucksterism into which it has fallen during the past
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After some technical problems with the Wi-Fi address we are now online,
live and direct from the floor of the Democratic National Convention.
The photo above was taken this afternoon, from the small stage within
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The bloggers who have worked their fingers to the bone to get here
and understandably miffed that with the current cachet surrounding Blogging
everybody and his buddy has a blog up and running. At the Blogger;s Bunch
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This morning at the fashionably late hour of 10 am, in the Fenway
suite of the Hilton, we attended the Blogger’s Brunch, an official welcome
on the part of some of the party joes who
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There was a feeling of festivities in the streets of Boston as we
walked across Copley Square to pick up our credentials at the Westin
Hotel. Like New Year Eve’s Day, when people are packing in supplies
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Together with fellow blogging stalwarts Dave Winer and Rick Heller we have breached the security of the Fleet Center and taken our designated spots among the journalistic hoi poloi covering the Convention.
Our seats are in the nosebleed section, 319 to be exact, but almost directly across from the stage and with a beautiful view of [...]

Every night, after the sun goes down and an army of tired office
workers and business people leave downtown Boston in a mass exodus to
the nearby towns and suburbs, another army invades the center of the
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“Use this value-laden word: “Halliburton.” All speakers should say Halliburton no less than six times.”
from Op-Ed piece in Boston Globe